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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7404409 | Substrate processing system and substrate processing method A substrate processing system includes a substrate transfer unit having a plural-wafer conveyer that transfers plural wafers collectively and a single wafer conveyer that transfers a single wafer at a time. The single-wafer conveyer is accessible to the plural-wafer... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7364622 | Method and apparatus for fabricating a device, and the device and an electronic equipment The invention provides an apparatus for fabricating a device, in which a high operation efficiency is maintained in a drying treatment for a multilayer-interconnection device. The device can also be fabricated inexpensively. An apparatus for fabricating a device has... | 04/29/2008 |
| 6561203 | Container cleaning, draining and drying apparatus Herein is disclosed a container cleaning, draining and drying apparatus comprising: a transfer mechanism for transferring a container filled with a content; a cleaning mechanism for cleaning an outer surface of the container during the transfer; a drainin... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6129099 | Pallet washing apparatus and method A method and apparatus for cleaning articles such as pallets, totes, containers, bins, trays, carts, and other like articles. The apparatus includes a main housing having a conveyor system on which articles are transported into and through a washing chamb... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5730061 | Automatic conveyor system with damage-free guide rails A guide rail assembly for use with a conveyor of an automatic conveyor car wash. The guide rail assembly is comprised of a main guide rail positioned outside the conveyor proximate the wheel portion of a vehicle, and a lower guide rail extending below and... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5551460 | Poultry nest pad cleaning method and apparatus A method and apparatus is provided wherein poultry nest pads are moved on a conveyor between a plurality of cleaning stations, involving first bending the pads prior to wetting in order to separate debris and dried manure by cracking and breaking from the... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5464483 | Flexible, compact vial washer A method for removing exterior material from vials following a serpentine path through various steps of cleaning and drying. The movement of the vials may be limited to a predetermined path formed as an elongated opening in a sheet of material. The sheet ... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5293888 | Flexible, compact vial washer A vial washer in which the vials follow a serpentine path through several stages of cleaning. A sheet having the serpentine path in the form of an elongated slot guides the vials through their washing. Conveyor belts moving in opposite directions undernea... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5247952 | Bobbin reconditioning A stripped bobbin treatment apparatus for inspecting, cleaning and packing bobbins which have been stripped of residual yarn includes a conveyor, an inspection station. a cleaning station and a packing station. The conveyor is in the form of a plurality o... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5235996 | Bottle washer with multiple carrier Apparatus for washing bottles, in which a transfer conveyor define an endless loop belt between an inlet end and outlet end. A plurality of cups are carried along the endless loop. An inlet elevator adjacent the inlet end supplies a quantity of bottles in... | 08/17/1993 |
| 4981151 | Expandable guide rail for an automatic car wash conveyor A guide rail apparatus to be used within an automatic car wash including two parallel rails for directing the travel of the car tires along the conveyor within the car wash. The gap between the rails is expandable for accepting a range of wide and narrow ... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4880021 | Device for cleaning cans Device for cleaning cans or similar containers, whereby the cans are supported in a roughly horizontal position on, for example, rods of a chain conveyor, and are conveyed along a washing line and through a rinsing zone, over rollers or deflection pulleys... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4821755 | Continuous-flow type dishwashing apparatus A continuous-flow type dishwashing apparatus, for use by large concerns for washing dishes and other utensils in a continuous manner, comprises a closed loop conveyor disposed laterally of the washing compartment, and a plurality of racks supported in a s... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4479574 | Container transport apparatus Container transport apparatus for transporting containers such as plastic bottles and the like which are subject to damage without damaging the containers. The container transport apparatus includes container guiding members for guiding containers such as... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4311157 | Sonic treating apparatus A sonic treating apparatus in which sheet material is immersed in a shallow tank between sonic treating vibrators along opposite parallel sides thereof, which vibrators produce a horizontally sonic vibrating treating liquid in the tank. The sheets to be t... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4281675 | Apparatus for washing insulated trays Washing apparatus for washing insulated trays includes an endless conveyor below the elevation of first and second guide rails which guide the trays in an upright disposition as they are being washed. The conveyor includes generally V-shaped tray supports... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4233084 | Device for treatment of articles with at least one treatment agent In a conveyor module a conveyor is moving in a plane oriented at an angle relative to the vertical and transports articles through one or more treatment zones in a container. The conveyor is preferably of the endless type having two parallel runs. A numbe... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4218854 | Apparatus for transport and simultaneous surface-treatment of discrete commodities Apparatus for transporting, agitating, rotating and treating discrete objects, such as metallic parts, has an endless band which is trained over two sets of rollers and forms a trough between the two sets of rollers. The band is driven by at least one set... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4198902 | Antijamming mechanism for conveyor A conveyor mechanism for automatically removing articles, such as cheeses, floating in a liquid includes a horizontal section adapted to be positioned below the surface of the liquid and an integral upwardly inclined section. Articles that float upon the ... | 04/22/1980 |
| 3963117 | Article brake for inclined conveyor Articles being transported upwardly on an inclined conveyor are restrained against rolling back down the conveyor by a brake comprising an array of parallel spaced apart rods extending longitudinally in the direction of conveyor movement, pivotally suspen... | 06/15/1976 |
| 3946750 | Label remover for bottle washing machine Labels are removed from the bottles as they stand generally upright in the conveyor pockets at the bottom of the curved guide where they pass under the high volume nozzles fed by a supply manifold approximately at the center of the curvature of the solid ... | 03/30/1976 |
